Notices by Shufei 🈳 (shufei@mastodon.sdf.org), page 14

@logout Haha, “make CB great again”. Print up the hats and stickers and I think you’ll have a movement!

I’m familiar with PMR, and a bit envious, as the analogous FRS/GMRS doesn’t enjoy the same developed popularity as in EU. They tend to be used for small gatherings only incidentally, with some emcomm on GMRS. No contests that I know... Most serious SOTA types go to 2m/70cm ham here quickly. 300km on PMR is astounding! You did that QSO?

@logout That must have been quite a sea change when CB was permitted! (I have some idea how that can be viz a viz a communist regime...) I have heard and read that CB in USA and Canada used to be different, that in the 70’s it had the character of social media, but likewise fell to anonymous toxicity.

CB is a good idea to have available, natch. It’s too bad the rich on air culture you describe has become moribund. Do you think a retro or localist movement might revive it?

@SDF Overamped and burnt down... The @snowdusk_ show is just that hot!

two fans seized in the aNONradio server. luckily we had spares.

@logout (For “bands”, read “channels”, natch.)

@logout An interesting exception to my harsh rating is SSB. I’ve had a few worthy interactions on the higher bands where occasionally SSB ragchewers haunt. CB is not my usual milieu otherwise. It was funny the first time I had a passing lorry driver approve my features on air and was surprised I could tender a jaunty reply. But it got old and seedy quickly. Aside from passing road block info, I thus rarely peep up. But many other ears do also listen this way.

@logout I’ve not tried it abroad, but CB (11m) has largely been a cesspit across North America as long as I have used it. But it is still quite widely deployed, insofar as much cargo is shipped by highway rather than rail. So if nothing else, it behooves the continental traveller to keep trucker channel 19 in one’s radio memory for exigencies. There still are DX “skip talkers”, but of very poor operator quality. I heaps prefer 40m to that; most hams here are wont to concur.

@ckeen So cute... I love that little Martian invader and still cry when he does.

@fluttergirly Pickle and Petunia Meet the Grunger part 2.

@Anti_Edipo The cop, of course, shouts back, “Resistance is futile!”

@fluttergirly Ask it if it wants a ride in your pocket. Then you could take it to the park and ride on swings together. It may like that.

@garfiald Alright, and somewhat disappointing, but heaps thanks all the same for the education! I was hoping there was some way it was demonstrably a Tristram and Isulda detour, though, or had some other interesting influences. But maybe the chap had a similar heritage born of a location with Gaulish overlaid by migration era Germanic...

Thanks!

@nivex @ND3JR Good show! Thanks heaps! I didn’t know (or forgot) that Allstar was based on Asterisk. I shall give it a looksee.

@trashHeap @cstanhope It ever was thus, if often but at heart.

9/11 ripped the fig-leaf of cowboy chivalry off the empire. At that moment, in the puerile paradigm of that mythos, America had the choice to take up with more determination either the “white hat” or the “black hat”. It should be indubitably apparent by now that most Americans have starkly chosen to wear the latter.

@garfiald What was the place of Cornish people in medieval French poetry at the time? I only vaguely am familiar with the Arthurian connotations such a nationality might mean... But is there any Brythonic substrate to this tale?

Also, is this poem in French or Provenćal?

Thanks.